After the Hobgoblin commander’s defeat, the remaining goblins shifted into a defensive stance immediately and stopped fighting with the same ferocity as before. Thankfully, no other Tier 6 goblin died which kept the battlefield in some kind of balance.
After his clash with the Hobgoblin, the Third Elder practically restrained himself and didn’t charge back into the fray, as he look like he had no interest in soiling his hands with the blood of goblins beneath his level, though he was quick to intervene whenever a human mage looks like they were in danger.
The Tier 6 goblins understood it soon enough, that he wasn’t sparing them out of mercy, he was just leaving them as whetstones for the human mages present, as killing them wouldn’t help his cultivation, so he let the others refine their
